Yes - I remember the first time all that happened and some young Chinese children died, which of course is incredibly sad.

But it turned out that the father thought the poultry were ill and decided to butcher them for household use before they actually died, which he did by cutting off their heads. The children then used the severed heads as finger puppets. in the muddy yard where ducks were also kept.

As I say that is still very, very sad, but when less that 500 people out of 6 billion have died world wide in the last 10 years or so, I often wish the media would give us the full facts and try to keep things in perspective - still I suppose then it wouldn't be "news"

yes, I remember the swine flu scare and run on tamiflu. I knew a few people who were in Mexico at the time.

At the end of the day, just take usual precautions of isolating and treating/culling. I do wish some people with flu would wear surgical masks like they do in places like Japan. The London tube is a good way of getting every bug going!

The face masks are only effective if you change them every hour or so. I wouldn't be surprised to see there were more measles, whooping cough or ordinary flu deaths each year than have been from bird flu ever since this all started.

I think you have to be living in very close contact with the birda, like they often do in Asia, to increase your chance of contracting avian flu. Mind you....I don't fancy it much myself, having had swine flu last year...

Yah its really dangerous disease in winter.Actually every year happen this in this time.We should be very care full about it and will use different anti fungal and virus medicine and if we see any flue disease then we must keep the separately.Ofcourse we will keep the chicken coop neat and clean.I have a website you can visit and learn about it more also about chicken coop.http://onechickencoop.com/

Pardon me for maybe barging in but has the above poster just posted to promote a website which MAY sell coops, or is it a genuine post and I'm being too suspicious ? I don't trust the link to be safe ........ ?

mollteezers wrote:I think you have to be living in very close contact with the birda, like they often do in Asia, to increase your chance of contracting avian flu. Mind you....I don't fancy it much myself, having had swine flu last year...